estates data

This page covers -

• writers
• artists
• composers
• performers
• publishers

It is a work in progress; information is being added progressively.

     writers

Richard Steele (1672-1729) £10,000

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) £28,540

Frances [Fanny] Trollope (1779-1863) £1,500

Caroline Lamb (1785-1828) £3,000

George Byron (1788-1824) £100,000

George Eliot (1819-1880) £45,000

George Meredith (1828-1909) £32,359

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832­1898) £4,596

Samuel Clemens (1835-1910) US$471,136

William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) £118,028

James Murray (1837-1915) £3,836

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) £95,428

Henry James (1843-1916) £8,961

Louisa Lawson (1848-1920) £629

Charles Garvice (1850-1920)

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) £22,850

Barbara Baynton (1857-1929) £160,621

Nat Gould (1857-1919) £7,797

Beatrice Webb (1858-1943) £59,419

Constance Garnett (1861-1946) £8,181

George Morrison (1862-1920) £27,545

Henry Newbolt (1862-1938) £7,190

Arthur Morrison (1863-1945) £45,645

Mary Gilmore (1865-1962) £12,020

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) £121,470

Jessie Pope (1868-1941) £2,039

Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) £6148

Christopher Brennan (1870-1932) £68

Seebohm Rowntree (1871-1954) £90,812

W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) £98,307

Hugh McCrae (1876-1958) £133

Bede Dalley (1876-1935) £8,515

May Gibbs (1877-1969) £42,532

Miles Franklin (1879-1954) £8,922

Freddy Lonsdale (1881-1954) £2,234

James Joyce (1882-1941) £1,212

Joan Riviere (1883-1962) £20,234

William Baylebridge (1883-1942) £18,158

Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968) $1,580,000

Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) £28,836

E M Delafield (1890-1943) £11,548

Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) £43

Edward Hallett Carr (1892-1982) £153,058

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) £162

Gerald Brenan (1894-1987) £1,504

Noel Streatfeild (1895-1986) £42,018

F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) US$10,000

Carola Oman (1897-1978) £177,165

Maurice Bowra (1898-1971) £113,212

Eirene Hopkinson aka Antonia White (1899-1980) £6,884

Frances Partridge (1900-2004) £369,783

Kenneth Slessor (1901-1971) $99,216

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) £20,068

Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) £41,989

Alfred Leslie Rowse (1903-1997) £704,104

Charles Percy Snow (1905-1980) £312,677

AJP Taylor (1906-1990) £307,000

Elizabeth Kenward aka Jennifer (1906-2001) £685,489

Elspeth Huxley (1907-1997) £670,948

Anthony Blunt (1907-1983) £862,521

Kathleen Raine (1908-2003) £87,500

Ian Fleming (1908-1964) £302,147

Veronica Wedgwood (1910-1997) £1,037,545

Julian Symons (1912-1994) £83,013

Stuart Hampshire (1914-2004) £312,516

David Campbell (1915-1979) $192,611

Roald Dahl (1916-1990) £2,843,217

Rohan Rivett (1917-1977) $100,996

Nigel Nicolson (1917-2004) £1,523,754

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) £297,787

Bernice Rubens (1923-2004) £539,385

Richard Wollheim (1923-2003) £1,029,730

David Sylvester (1924-2001) £1,988,011

Bernard Williams (1929-2003) £78,055

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) £2,147

James Farrell (1935-1979) £27,014

Paul Foot (1937-2004) £206,000

Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989) £584,388

Eric Blair aka George Orwell (1950) £10,000

Caroline Blackwood (1931-1996) £3,300,000

     artists and architects

James Gibbs (1682-1754) £4,000

Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) £1,046

John Glover (1767-1849) £10,000

John Skinner Prout (1805-1876) £1,500

William Bell Scott (1811-1890) £11,089

William Frith (1819-1909) £1,380

William Orchardson (1832-1910) £7,501

Julian Ashton (1851-1942) £4,343

John Russell (1858-1930 ) £41,973

Philip Wilson Steer (1860-1942) £88,826

John Longstaff (1861-1941) £4,631

Robert Lorimer (1864-1929) £82,134

Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) £24,782

Portia Geach (1873-1959) £66,328

Lionel Lindsay (1874-1961) £75,140

Hans Heysen (1877-1968) $195,882

George Bell (1878-1966) $194,175

William Orpen (1878-1931) £159,174

Ernest Shepard (1879-1976) £68,948

Matthew Smith (1879-1959) £173,948

Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) $65,698

Will Ashton (1881-1963) £25,195

Alfred Leete (1882-1933) £9,579

Christopher Nevinson (1889-1946) £8,154

Grace Cowley (1890-1979) $318,441

Godfrey Miller (1893-1964) £114,000

Ernö Goldfinger (1902-1987) £116,008

Edith Tudor Hart (1908-1973) £3,054

Hugh Jenkins (1908-2004) £642,093

Carel Weight (1908-1997) £870,222

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) £11,370,244

Terry Frost (1915-2003) £4,150,060

John Minton (1917-1957) £13,518

     composers

Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) £56,536

Hubert Parry (1848-1918) £31,127

Edward Elgar (1857-1934) £13,934

Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916) £140

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) £28,520

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) £800

Felix Powell (1878-1942) £147

Hamilton Harty (1879-1941) £6,865

Thomas Wood (1892-1950) £118,868

Eric Coates (1886-1957) £53,124

Herbert Howells (1892-1983) £73,482

     performers and impresarios

Thomas Greene (1573-1612) £344

Patrick Cotter (1760-1806) £3,400

Kitty Stephens (1794-1882) £71,020

George Coppin (1819-1906) £9,709

Lola Montez (1821-1861) US$1,400

Jean-François Gravelet aka Charles Blondin (1824-1897) £1,832

Ellen Ternan (1839-1914) £1,241

Adelina Patti (1843-1919) £116,337

James Cassius Williamson (1845-1913) £193,010

Nellie Melba (1861-1931) £67,511

Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952) £9,284

Henry Wood (1869-1944) £6,460

Violet Woodhouse (1871-1948) £26,234

Clara Butt (1872-1936) £39,517

Vesta Victoria (1873-1951) £15,631

Lionel Tertis (1876-1975) £9,741

Bertram Mills (1873-1938) £146,574

Peter Dawson (1882-1961) £1,555

Percy Grainger (1882-1961) US$208,293

Benno Moiseiwitsch (1890-1963) £13,559

Malcolm Sargent (1895-1967) £43,657

John Barbirolli (1899-1970) £36,307

Nicholai Polakovs aka Coco the Clown (1900-1974) £7,722

Cyril Bertram Mills (1902-1991) £743,617

Anton Dolin (1904-1983) £9,049

Jessie Matthews (1907-1981) £56,503

Celia Johnson (1908-1982) £150,557

Fanny Cradock (1909-1994) £204,696

Alicia Markova (1910-2004) £119,000

Muir Mathieson (1911-1975) £17,215

Michael Hordern (1911-1995) £391,059

Wendy Hiller (1912-2003) £1,954,523

Jon Pertwee (1919-1996) £420,149

Ernie Wise (1925-1999) £503,299

Kenneth Williams (1926-1988) £538,379

Eric Morecambe (1926-1984) £517,205

Philip Jones (1928-2000) £54,268

Brian Redhead (1929-1994) £682,980

Diana Dors (1931-1984) £250,167

Russell Harty (1934-1988) £430,887

John Ravenscroft (aka John Peel) (1939-2004) £1,752,633

John Entwistle (1944-2002) £4,923,969

Jacqueline Du Pré (1945-1987) £70,000

     publishers and managers

Herbert Ingram (1811-1860) £90,000

George Murray Smith (1824-1901) £931,968

David Syme (1827-1908) £880,000

John Norton (1858-1916) £140,331

Charles Boon (1877-1943) £28,798

Keith Murdoch (1885-1952) £400,000

Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) £157,732

Basil Blackwell (1889-1984) £193,289

Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) £51,114

Ezra Norton (1897-1967) $3,844,672

Allen Lane (1902-1970) £1,216,474

Frank Packer (1906-1974) $1,300,00

Bridget D'Oyly Carte (1908-1985) £5,479,888

Hugh Cudlipp (1913-1998) £242,497

Paul Hamlyn (1926-2001) £366,402,436

Brian Epstein (1934-1967) £486,032




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